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Home in Henderson’s Top 10 Posts of 2016
Here’s a recap of the most popular posts on homeinhenderson.com for 2016. The #1 post received 3,396 views, and the #10 post received 763. You can see the top 10 posts below. Overall our site had 140,343 total page views, across 52,728 unique users. Compare that to 2015 where we had 45,648 unique users, and 2014 at 42,033 unique users and you can see we’ve continued to grow our audience. Click on the post title to read the original posting. …
Phil Hart: Our Participation Makes Us
Wednesday January 28th, 2015 I went to the Vance County Board of Commissioners Annual Retreat. Home in Henderson was invited to attend as a media outlet to give our views of the past, present and future of Vance County from our organizations point of view. If I were given the invitation personally, the presentation may have been different, however it was fitting that the invitation first went to frequent contributor Michael Bobbitt. Michael is such a frequent contributor here and goes …
Michael Bobbitt: Home in Henderson Presentation to the Vance County Board of Commissioners
Editors Note: This is a copy of the presentation presented to the Vance County Board of Commissioners during their Annual Retreat January 28th, 2015. I (Phil Hart) will write more about this hopefully this weekend. An excerpt from the presentation is below, and the full presentation download link is provided at the end. My name is Michael Bobbitt. Chairman Taylor invited me to make a data driven presentation to you, the Board of Commissioners, on what I perceive as the …
Vance County – Home in Henderson Survey Request
Readers of Home-In-Henderson who are residence of Vance County have been asked their opinion regarding positive outcomes within the county. Please take few minutes of your time to complete this short survey.
Times added to Vance County Board of Commissioners meeting audio
A few days ago we posted the audio from Monday nights Vance County Board of Commissioners meeting. Wanted to post this again in the link below as it may be intimidating to listen to a 2 hour audio file without context. So we’ve updated the posting to include the times in the audio file for each agenda item. Please do give us feed back if you enjoy having the audio, if you’d like us to continue this. http://homeinhenderson.com/2013/12/04/news/county-business/audio-vance-county-board-of-commissioners-meeting-december-2nd-2013/
Contest Winners – Christmas With The Embers
Congratulations to Augi, Mingo and Prudence! You’ve each won a pair of tickets to Christmas With The Embers, playing at the VGCC Civic Center on Friday December 6th, 2013. I’ll be sending you an email shortly with instructions to claim your price. Winners were chosen randomly from anyone that commented on our website since November 14th, 2013 as outlined in the rules here: homeinhenderson.com/2013/11/14/quick-hits/hih/contest-christmas-with-the-embers-tickets/ Each username that commented was written down on a piece of paper, papers cut to equal …
Contest – Christmas With The Embers Tickets
We’re running a contest starting right now, November 14th , 2013 ending at 12 noon on Tuesday, November 26th, 2013. We’re giving away 3 pairs of adult tickets to Christmas With The Embers, which is the evening of Friday, December 6th, 2013 at the Vance Granville Community College Civic Center. Each adult ticket is worth $10.00 To enter, simply make a comment on any article on our website during the contest running time. There will be 3 winners, each winner …
HiH Jobs page updated
Our jobs page has been iffy for a few days not posting everything its supposed to, today it seems like it’s working again. Please give it a look if you haven’t recently at http://homeinhenderson.com/category/jobs/
Home in Henderson Sends Reader Comments to VC BOC for Annual Retreat
This week, we sent the attached letter to Vance County Board of Commissioners of your suggestions to be discussed during their annual retreat in the upcoming weeks. Download the letter here: hih_vcboc_retreat_2013 Last year, we sent a list of reader suggestions as well, however we were told it was too late for us to get them in on the agenda, so we’re trying a little earlier this year. We never did get any response from last years letter, maybe this …
Home in Henderson Contest – 2 Tickets to Christmas With the Embers December 7th
I have in my hands 2 adult tickets to Christmas With The Embers, Friday December 7th, 2012. The show starts at 7:00pm at the Vance Granville Community College Civic Center. Tickets are normally $10.00 per adult. The contest starts right now, which is Friday, November 30th about 6:00pm and runs until Wednesday, December 5th at 10:00am. To enter, make a comment on THIS ARTICLE with an upcoming holiday event in the Henderson area. We need the who, what, when, where …
Contest: $20 Gift Certficate to Mazatlan – Winner: royal rooter
Starting Monday, November 12th at 12:01 AM, Home in Henderson is holding it’s latest contest for a $20 gift certificate to Mazatlan Mexican Restaurant. This contest will end Monday, November 19th at 9:00 AM at which time we’ll randomly choose a winner from all contestants and post the winner here, and email the contestant instructions on picking up the prize. Rules to enter: Simply make a comment on any article on our website during the contest period. Good luck to …
This Weeks Contest: 2 Tickets to the NC State Fair! Drawing October 5th
Beginning at this posting, which will be about 12:02am Friday morning, September 28th, Home in Henderson will hold our latest contest. The lucky winner receives 2 general admission tickets to the NC State Fair. To enter, simply make a comment on ANY ARTICLE on our website during the contest time frame of September 28th to October 5th. On Friday, October 5th at 9:00am the contest will close and a random commenter will be drawn that morning. The winner will be …
This Weeks Contest: 2 Tickets to the NC State Fair! Drawing September 24th
Beginning at this posting, which will be about 12:02am Monday morning, September 17th, Home in Henderson will hold our latest contest. The lucky winner receives 2 general admission tickets to the NC State Fair. To enter, simply make a comment on ANY ARTICLE on our website during the contest time frame of September 17th to September 24th. On Monday, September 24th at 9:00am the contest will close and a random commenter will be drawn that morning. The winner will be …
Home in Henderson Milestone
For the month of August 2012, Home in Henderson had the most unique visitors of the year, at just shy of 6,000 unique visitors. The exact number was 5,983 from August 1st to August 31st. It was the 2nd most unique visitors month since Dataforge took the site over. The 1st most ‘active’ month was August of 2011 with 6,352 unique visitors. That was mostly due to the article we had about the earthquake in Henderson that was picked up …
Thanks To Deception, We’re Giving Away $20 Gift Card To Ichibar to Someone Special
Deception has offered for myself to find a needy recipient of his contest prize from last week, a $20 gift card to Ichibar. Of course I know many needy individuals and organizations that could use it, but I don’t want the challenge of picking only one to give. So, here’s what we’ll do. Starting right now, until Thursday, July 19th at 9:00am, you guys will vote on who / what gets the prize. In THIS THREAD, create a comment and …
Post July 4th Contest, $20 Gift Card to Ichibar Up For Grabs – Update – Deception You’ve Won, But You’ve Got To Contact Us!
Hadn’t thought to do this in a while, so let’s get going on it! Make a comment on any article from NOW (Thursday, July 5th 1:45pm) until Monday, July 9th morning at 9:00am EST and you’ll be entered to win our contest. It doesn’t matter how many comments you make, 1 or 100, you’ll be entered once so everyone has a fair shot. Well, you can’t make 0 comments and still be entered. We’ll draw the winners Monday morning July …
Help Spread The Word On Our Jobs Pages
Since launching our jobs page on May 2nd, it’s the 6th most visited pages on our site. Please help spread the word to your family and friends of our jobs listings page! We display job listings posted in Henderson and surrounding cites at homeinhenderson.com/category/jobs/ If you’d like to advertise your job posting for no charge, simply email us submit@homeinhenderson.com While I’m here in the stats page, I’ll throw out that from April 15 to May 15 our site has received …
New Jobs Listings
We’ve just started a section for job listings on our website, you can find it at homeinhenderson.com/category/jobs/. This is an automatically generated listing updated throughout the day from various job websites. There’s a new menu item as well in our header menu labeled Jobs that will take you there. If you’d like us to add your own job posting, please email us to submit@homeinhenderson.com Enjoy!
Home in Henderson Celebrates 1 Year of New Site (And This is The Contest Article! Comment Here to Enter!!!)
On this day last year, April 11th, 2011, Home in Henderson re-opened to the public after a brief suspension while the previous owner arranged the transfer of passage to myself. If you want to go back and re-read some of our history, or if you are relatively new here and would like to check out the transition, check this link for our first few posts around that time. homeinhenderson.com/2011/04/page/7/ At the bottom of the list you can click on Newer …
April 1st Celebration Contest Winner – mudball
Through a highly complex and scientific method by gathering all the entrancees (Is that a word?) names, then writing out each letter of the alphabet, cutting out each letter individually and placing them into a bowl, then having the wife draw out a letter until the letter matches the first letter of a commenter in this case M, then drawing out the next letter possible until it matches one of the entrances, in this case U, we ended up left …